POST SHUTDOWN DECAY HEAT REMOVAL IN FAST REACTORS
Partha Sarathy, Uppala In a nuclear reactor, most of the nuclear fission energy appears as heat, which is
generally utilized to produce steam for the generation of electricity. The final step is
similar to that used in fossil-fueled power plant. Coming to the basics of nuclear
energy, the mass of a nucleus is always less than the mass of the constituent nucleons.
The difference is known as mass defect. The energy equivalent of the mass defect is
called the binding e...